Tag Archives: Robots

About 10 percent of those in my Facebook and Instagram feeds are in Japan. I understand the fascination and I wish to visit the country soon. Even US President Obama is in Japan for a state visit as part of his Asian tour. He qui...

Technology is improving every day, but who would have thought that one day we could walk around the office without actually being at the office. You see, that’s what the Beam Pro is for, and it’s also designed to cree...

A group of engineers have created a robotic suit capable of letting you lift 220 pounds like it was nothing. While I’d like to believe the “body extender” as they’re calling it is just the precursor to the...

Industrial-robot maker Kuka is celebrating the launch of its new factory in Shanghai in a very strange way. On March 11th, the company will pit German ping pong champion Timo Boll against its Agilus robots. The former no. 1 playe...

Scientists have created a bionic hand that actually let’s a person feel with it. The full details have been published in the Science Translational Medicine Journal on the experiment lasted a month and had very positive resu...

Scientists have created RoboEarth, which is essentially an internet designed for robots.
RoboEarth was created to allow robots to learn from other robots and share their information as well. The system, which runs on a cloud, is ...

We may be closer to the exoskeleton Matt Damon uses in Elysium than we thought. Four college students in Pennsylvania have created the Titan Arm, which when attached, allows the wearer to lift forty pounds more than without Titan...

Their robots may look like they are unstable, and they may not be aesthetically pleasing, but Boston Dynamics has become the bar when it comes to innovation and engineering and is a pioneer in advanced robotics. On Friday, Google...

When Android founder and boss Andy Rubin left Google’s mobile division earlier this year, it was said that he would take on new projects at the company. Early rumors suggested that those projects had something to do with Ru...

Human suicide is a common thing, but when have you ever heard of a robot committing suicide? Well, it has happened, and it shall go down in history. Interestingly enough, the suicidal robot was a Roomba, which means it got tired ...

Researchers are looking for a new way to power stationary bots by utilizing something we all produce every day — pee. The idea is to power these bots with urine that is pumped through the bot via the use of an artificial he...